Physical Education

Intent:

At Farncombe Infant School we want to inspire all children to have a passion for sport, fitness and healthy living, that will continue throughout their lives. By the time they leave us, we want all children to be physically literate and confident in a way which supports their long-term health allowing them to be physically active and develop a love of sport. 

Throughout their time at Farncombe, the children will develop a broader range of skills that they will learn to use and apply in different ways and in different contexts. During lessons, they will enjoy communicating, collaborating and competing with one another as well as learning how to evaluate and recognise their own success. 

As part of our curriculum we use REAL PE, which allows us to teach high-quality and engaging, skill-based, inclusive and progressive PE lessons across the school, where children of all abilities are able to succeed. Using the REAL PE learning cogs, the children will develop skills which they will be able to use across school life and beyond when they leave us and move on to junior school. 
 
Alongside this, we aim to provide other sporting opportunities for the children to participate in such as sports festivals, sports day, local tournaments and sessions run by professional coaches. 

 

The National Curriculum: 

The national curriculum for physical education aims to ensure that all pupils:

  • develop competence to excel in a broad range of physical activities

  • are physically active for sustained periods of time

  • engage in competitive sports and activities

  • lead healthy, active lives. 

Pupils should develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. They should be able to engage in competitive (both against self and against others) and co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations.  

Pupils should be taught to: 

  • master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and co-ordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities

  • participate in team games, developing simple tactics for attacking and defending

  • perform dances using simple movement patterns 

 

Implementation: 

Real PE gives EVERY child the physical literacy, emotional and thinking skills to achieves in PE, Sport and life. It is a unique, child-centred approach which transforms how PE is 
taught to engage and challenge EVERY child. 

Every child will: 

  • take part in two hours of planned physical activity a week, one of which being real PE

  • experience high quality teaching from teachers 

  • develop the fundamental physical skills of agility, balance and coordination 

  • apply these skills within a wide range of sports 

  • have additional opportunities for physical activity within curriculum hours and outside of curriculum hours 

  • opportunities for physical activity during lunch time with planned events such as sports festivals and sessions run by visiting coaches

 

If you were to walk into a PE lesson at Farncombe you would see: 

  • High levels of engagement where children enjoy being active

  • A focus on skill development that enables successful participation in games

  • Pupils’ challenging themselves by setting and achieving targets

  • Collaboration where pupils work together whilst engaging in physical activity

  • Development of social skills where pupils learn to communicate effectively

REAL PE Assessment REAL PE Fundamental Movement Skills REAL PE Multi Ability Progression Statements REAL PE Progression of Skills REAL PE Year EYFS REAL PE Year 1 REAL PE Year 2